Reg Race
Dr Reg Race joined Labour in 1963 whilst at school. His family were compositors, plumbers, cotton weavers and bleachers. He gained a Political Science BA and Ph.D from the University of Kent, contested a Canterbury City Council seat at the age of 22 and organised the first defeat for the Conservatives there since 1868.
In 1972 he became research officer for NUPE and was Secretary of the National Steering Committee Against the Cuts, organising against the biggest ever cuts in public spending.
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